Floating Rock City

Floating Rock City
Author: Ulric Clear
Publisher: Publifye AS
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2024-10-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8233934917

In Floating Rock City, humanity's last refuge hovers above the clouds, sustained by ancient anti-gravity technology that keeps ten thousand survivors alive in a marvel of crystalline structures and flourishing biodomes. At the heart of this precarious sanctuary, seventeen-year-old Shahl and his friends Maya and Kenzo navigate a society bound by strict rules and technological preservation. As skilled tech scavengers, they delve into the mysterious caverns beneath their floating home, driven by an insatiable curiosity about the forbidden surface world below. Their discovery of a hidden hangar containing a preserved flying vehicle coincides with alarming signs of failure in the city's ancient levitation systems. Against the wishes of the conservative City Council and Administrator Vale, the young explorers secretly work to repair the vehicle, knowing their floating sanctuary's survival may depend on reaching the surface. Their clandestine mission becomes increasingly complex as they balance political tensions, revolutionary factions, and the desperate need to find resources before their city plummets from the sky. This gripping tale of survival and discovery blends the wonder of ancient technology with the urgency of impending disaster. As Shahl and his companions uncover shocking truths about humanity's past and venture to the mysterious surface below, they must convince their society to overcome generations of fear and tradition. Their journey challenges everything they've known about their floating world, while racing against time to save the only home they've ever known.

Floating City

Floating City
Author: Eric Van Lustbader
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476778698

Seeking to destroy the Torch, an evil tool used for wanton destruction by the bloodthirsty leader of Vietnam's Floating City, Nicholas Linnear must confront his own personal demons in order to reach his target.

Floating City

Floating City
Author: Anne Pierson Wiese
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2007-03-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0807132357

Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of place. Many are set in New York City, but they simultaneously inhabit a realm in which a mundane physical location or daily exchange can be seen to have human significance beyond the immediate. When one dismisses from one's mind the idea that going to the park, doing the laundry, buying a sandwich, and riding the subway are familiar experiences, one makes room for the actual to ally with the hypothetical by means of the emotions. The result, Wiese eloquently shows, is a form of truth that is silently generated whenever human beings earnestly endeavor to absorb the world.

The Floating Islands

The Floating Islands
Author: Rachel Neumeier
Publisher: Bluefire
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0440240603

The adventures of two teenaged cousins who live in a place called the Floating Islands, one of whom is studying to become a mage and the other one of the legendary island flyers.

The Edge Chronicles 1: The Curse of the Gloamglozer

The Edge Chronicles 1: The Curse of the Gloamglozer
Author: Paul Stewart
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2010-06-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1407076558

Fourteen-year-old Quint Verginix is the only remaining son of famous sky-pirate Wind Jackal. He and his father have journeyed to the city of Sanctaphrax – a great floating rock, bound to the ground below by a chain, its inhabitants living with their heads literally in the clouds. But the city hides a dangerous secret: deep inside the great rock, something horrible lurks. With his father away, Quint may be the only one who can save Sanctaphrax from the dreaded curse of the gloamglozer . . . The Curse of the Gloamglozer is the first book of the Quint Saga – first trilogy in The Edge Chronicles, the internationally best-selling fantasy series, which has featured on the UK and the New York Times best-seller lists and sold more than 3 million copies. There are now 13 titles and four trilogies in the series, but each book is a stand-alone adventure, so you can read The Edge Chronicles in any order you choose.

The Kaisho

The Kaisho
Author: Eric Van Lustbader
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2015-02-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476778701

From New York Times bestselling author Eric Lustbader, the suspense mastermind behind the smash bestsellers featuring Robert Ludlum’s™ Jason Bourne, comes a blockbuster thriller of one man’s debt of honor—and his ultimate destiny. Years ago, Nicholas Linnear, a.k.a. “the Ninja,” made a promise to his father: If a man named Mikio Okami ever sought his help, he would respond without question, no matter the cost. Now the time has come to fulfill his pledge. Okami is the Kaisho—the boss of bosses of the Yakuza, the Japanese underworld—and in his Venice headquarters, he realizes that he has been marked for death. But the identity of the assassin and the inexorable compulsion that drives him are shrouded in mysticism and madness. Honor bound to protect Okami, Linnear is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice: a descent into a chasm of knowledge so potent, of dangers so unfathomable, that even if he survives, he will emerge changed forever.

The Floating Book

The Floating Book
Author: Michelle Lovric
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2013-06-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 140884284X

Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a free-spirited sensualist, is the lover of many men in the fabled city, though married to one she despises. On the edge of the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer sets up the first printing press in Venice and looks for the book that will make his fortune. When he tempts fate by publishing Catullus, the poet whose desperate and unrequited love inspired the most tender and erotic poems of antiquity, a scandal is set in motion that will change all their lives forever.

The Twig Trilogy

The Twig Trilogy
Author: Paul Stewart
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 1032
Release: 2007
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 0385613458

Three stories from The edge chronicles featuring the hero Twig.

"Do You Have a Band?"

Author: Daniel Kane
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 023154460X

During the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, New York City poets and musicians played together, published each other, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In "Do You Have a Band?", Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this compelling exchange and its challenge to the status of the visionary artist, the cultural capital of poetry, and the lines dividing sung lyric from page-bound poem. Kane reveals how the new sounds of proto-punk and punk music found their way into the poetry of the 1960s and 1970s downtown scene, enabling writers to develop fresh ideas for their own poetics and performance styles. Likewise, groups like The Fugs and the Velvet Underground drew on writers as varied as William Blake and Delmore Schwartz for their lyrics. Drawing on a range of archival materials and oral interviews, Kane also shows how and why punk musicians drew on and resisted French Symbolist writing, the vatic resonance of the Beat chant, and, most surprisingly and complexly, the New York Schools of poetry. In bringing together the music and writing of Richard Hell, Patti Smith, and Jim Carroll with readings of poetry by Anne Waldman, Eileen Myles, Ted Berrigan, John Giorno, and Dennis Cooper, Kane provides a fascinating history of this crucial period in postwar American culture and the cultural life of New York City.